Impeovement in



@uiten `faire datent @ffirf MOSES M. HATCH, or P0RTLA1\T,D..MAINE'.`l

y Letters Ptevttrllo.A` 80,172, dated July 21, 1868; antedateel July 8, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPLE'-COREEL T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it'known that I, MSES M. HATCH, of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improved Apple-Gerer and Parer; and I hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will Venable others to make and use my invention, reference being had tio the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in wbich i i Figure 1 is an edge view of the corer and parer. l i

Figure 2 is a side view of the same. l

Same letters show like parts. 4

It is well known that, when apples have been pared and cut with the common knife, the operation of coring is attended with much diiculty and waste of the portions of the apple surrounding the core, which are not readily detached from it in the ordinary Way. To obviate this diculty, tin cylinders and other devices have been used; but these cause much'lossof time, and, in fact, but porly serve the purpose for which they are designed.

AThe object of my invention is to supply this want, and to furnish a rapidand simple method of paring apples', and removing their cores, without waste of the useful portions, and to avoid the inconvenience and delay which follow the use of more than one instrument, l

To accomplish this, I attach to the back of an ordinary knife, sueltas is used for purposes of this kind, a corer, 'b. The knife is seen` at a.

The corer'is forulred during manufacture of the knife, both being made from the same piece of metal, cast or wrought, as may be most convenient. 'This coi-er, which is shown in plan in fig. 2, is of scoop-shape, having one edge sharpened, and being of proper size for enclosing and cutting round the refuse parts of the core contained in a half apple. It is bent backward and outward, which prevents its interference with the process of paring jor slicing, and is placed'sucientlydistant from the knife-blade. n

The operation of my invention will be readily understood. After the skin or peel of the apple has been removed, the apple is divided in the vdirection of its length, and `as nearly through the centre of the core as possible. l As the halves fall apart in-the hand, a very slight motion ofthe wrist will bring the corer forward to its work, and, with a very little dexterity, it will perform its oice in an extremely rapid, clean, and economicalmanner. l

I do not, of course, claim the knife or its blade; neither do I claim an apple-parer; but a k'nife must be employed with my invention, either separate or connected therewith, for the purpose of dividing the apple before the core is extracted.

Il do not claim 'a shoemaking, paring-knife, having, in combination with the blade, a shield or cap, made by forming the-cap with a lstraight shank, in order that it may rest upon the blade, and by inserting the end ofthe same into the socket by the'side ofthe blade, in order to strengthen-the blade, andto prevent cutting the upper leather, as set forth in the patent of Isaacs. Pendergast, July 16, 1841, No. 21,077. Y

This invent-ion is'difl'erent in form, purpose, construction, and operation, from mine. My invention consists i-n combining with a knife the deviceiexplained, foi-'extracting thecor-es of apples.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.lhc cox-er b, when attached to the knife a, substantially as and for the purposes sert forth.

- -MosEs M. HATCH.

Witnesses:

W. H. Cmrroun, HENRY C. HoUsroN. 

